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Etymology
From aeolo- + -tropic.
Adjective
aeolotropic (not comparable)
- (physics) Pertaining to aeolotropy; of a body or substance, having physical properties (e.g., electric conductivity, refractive index) that depend on the direction in which they are measured.
1911, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edn. vol. 18, page 627:On extending his [Mitscherlich's] inquiry to other aelotropic crystals he observed a similar variation, and was thus led, in 1825, to the discovery that aelotropic crystals, when heated, expand unequally in the direction of dissimilar axes.
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